Spring 2013 International Visiting Scholar

Richard Ledborg Hansen is a Ph.D. fellow from The University Copenhagen Business School Denmark, where he also teaches part time. He is the CEO of The Institute of Leadership Dynamics A/S in Denmark and his research is focused on leadership and organizational change; in particular the resistance to change in an open system psychodynamic perspective from the position of the Middle Managers role. He has co-authored a book on leadership (Danish) and for his international scholar program, he chose SOLES for its extensive experience and knowledge on Leadership and he is looking forward to learning and collaborating with faculty far into the future.

Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 International Visiting Scholar

Dr. Nanako Ishiyama’s work as a psychiatrist at the Jikei University Hospital in Japan has been primarily with children and adolescents. Her research has focused on the recovery process of children suffering from depression, and on the early schizophrenia-like symptoms seen in adolescent patients with Asperger’s syndrome at the Japanese National Center for Child Health and Development. “There are no Family Therapy graduate programs in Japan,” she says, “so I am especially pleased to learn and collaborate with the professors and students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program here at SOLES.

Fall 2011 International Visiting Scholar

Masaru Yamashita is an Associate Professor of Business at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Yamashita will be visiting SOLES until April 2012. His research interests are in the development of transformational leaders with the viewpoint of work to career design. While at SOLES, he plans to conduct a comparative research study of vocational learning in the United States and Japan. Dr. Yamashita is available to make class visits and meet with faculty, staff and students. He can be reached via email at: yamashita@busi.aoyama.ac.jp

Fall 2008 International Visiting Scholar

Dr. Atsushi Takei was a visiting scholar in SOLES from September 2008 to January 2009. In his native Japan, he works for the Graduate school of HUTE (Hyogo University of Teachers Education), one of the first professional schools for school leaders. He teaches 'fieldwork methods,' 'curriculum development,' 'community involvement for school' and others there. Apart from the graduate school program, he has launched an out service learning program for undergraduates as a project leader. Outside the university, he has organized training programs of curriculum development for school leaders in Hyogo prefecture. The programs were carried out as part of an in-service training for 1,200 school leaders in the past five years, approximately. He has published papers in organizational theory of school, leadership, and networking. His co-authored book titled, 'To Train School Leaders' is scheduled to be published in fall 2008. He used to work on Indian Education. His doctoral dissertation was on rural school in southern Indian village, published as a book in 2003, titled 'Ethnographic Study of a Krishnamurti School.' His current research focuses on networking of alternative practices in education, aiming to cope with social diversity.

Visiting Scholar, Associate professor at HUTE, Japan

Ph.D. from University of Tsukuba, Education M.A. from University of Tsukuba, Education B.A. from University of Tsukuba, Human Science